Application of the pressure–state–response framework to perceptions reporting of the state of the New Zealand environment

Hughey, Kenneth F.D.; Cullen, Ross; Kerr, Geoffrey N.; Cook, Andrew J.

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2003.09.020

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“…(2) Cronbach's alpha (a) correlation was used to analyse the reliability of survey data (Hughey et al 2004;Goffredo et al 2010). The a coefficient ranges between 0 and 1 and was expressed as a percentage in the text.…”

Section: Validation Trialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using a citizen science program to monitor coral reef biodiversity through space and time

et al. 2014

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Coral reefs are the most biodiverse ecosystems of the ocean and they provide notable ecosystem services. Large-scale monitoring is necessary to understand the effects of anthropogenic threats and environmental change on coral reef habitats and citizen science programs can support this effort. Seventy-two marine taxa found in the Red Sea were surveyed by non-specialist volunteers during their regular recreational dives, using SCUBA Tourism for the Environment (STE) questionnaires. Over a period of 4-years, 7,125 divers completed 17,905 questionnaires (14,487 diving hours). Validation trials were carried out to assess the data reliability (Cronbach's alpha [50 % in 83.6 % of validation trials), showing that non-specialists performed similarly to conservation volunteer divers on accurate transect. The resulting sightings-based index showed that the biodiversity status did not change significantly within the project time scale, but revealed spatial trends across areas subjected to different protection strategies. Higher biodiversity values were found in Sharm el-Sheikh, within protected Ras Mohammed National Park and Tiran Island, than in the less-regulated Hurghada area. Citizen science programs like STEproject represent novel, reliable, cost-effective models for biodiversity monitoring, which can be sustained and embedded within long-term monitoring programmes, and extended to include a wider geographical scale, while increasing the environmental education of the public.Communicated by Angus Jackson.Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (

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Using a citizen science program to monitor coral reef biodiversity through space and time

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“…The interviews were conducted by skilled interviewers who read the questions to the respondents in order to obtain reliable answers (Van der Zee [19], Hughey et al [20]). The interviewees were selected randomly from the visitors, when they were returning from their trip and from the local people, by means of stratified random sampling that considered the island's 24 population settlements.…”

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Landscape perception of local population: the relationship between ecological characteristics, local society and visitor preferences

Díaz

Ruiz-Labourdette

Darias

et al. 2010

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Previous research has described and mapped the 'visitor-landscape' correspondence in terms of 'demand' and 'offer'. The relationship between the landscape and the socio-economic structure of the local population has also been studied, enabling us to create scenarios of change. Other relationships are being studied in order to provide an understanding both of the local population and of the tourism industry within the context of the 'landscape resource', in an attempt to produce results, both for this industry and for the sensible and sustainable management of the above mentioned resource.In the present paper we focus on the island of Fuerteventura (Canary Isles, Spain) and attempt to describe an assessment of the landscape by local populations -'local population-landscape' correspondence -and compare it with the perception of visitors -'visitors-landscape' correspondence. The results show a clear parallelism between the appreciation of the island's landscape by visitors and locals. The former consider the variable 'sun' to be essential in their appreciation of the landscape, this factor constituting the reason for their visit, whereas the latter value the landscape more highly than the visitors, taking it as something associated with the traditional rural world and as a reason to feel proud. This could be explained by means of a relaxed visit to the island from an anthropologist's perspective. A comparison between the 'assessment of the landscape by the local population' and 'landscape demand by visitors' can also be mapped, and could be better explained within the context of the research to which the present paper belongs.

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“…The coefficient between the variables is calculated after being standardized. Values above 0.5 are considered acceptable as evidence of a relationship (Nunnally 1967;Hughey 2004), while values above 0.7 are more definitive (Peterson 1994;Hughey 2004 …”

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Beijing environmental sustainable development from 1983 to 2003

Zhou¹,

Wang²,

Zhang³

2006

International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ec

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SUMMARYEver since the Earth Summit was launched at Rio de Janeiro, research has been done on the problems of developing indices for the health of the environment and for its sustainable development. However, this research has concentrated more on national and regional levels than on local levels, more on spatial comparisons than on time series analysis, more on short-term than on long-time analysis, more on qualitative than on quantitative analysis. In contrast, therefore, this paper presents an indicator system procedure for measuring Beijing (the capital of China) environmental sustainability based on the Pressure-State-Response (PSR) philosophy, evaluates the trend of Beijing environmental sustainability index (BESI) quantitatively for 21 years, from 1983 to 2003, and suggests three great opportunities in the near future that are expected to provide some dependable information to policy makers. The results suggest that Beijing is still far from environmental sustainable development. The total trend was better in the 1980s than in the 1990s, and has improved slightly since 2000.

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Application of the pressure–state–response framework to perceptions reporting of the state of the New Zealand environment

Cited by 73 publications

References 5 publications

Using a citizen science program to monitor coral reef biodiversity through space and time

Using a citizen science program to monitor coral reef biodiversity through space and time

Landscape perception of local population: the relationship between ecological characteristics, local society and visitor preferences

Beijing environmental sustainable development from 1983 to 2003

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